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Supplication & Compensation for countertenor and piano

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Joel Thompson 2021

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Supplication Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (1922) I am so tired and weary, So tired of the endless fight, So weary of waiting the dawn And finding endless night.

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That I ask but rest and quiet — Rest for days that are gone, And quiet for the little space That I must journey on.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905)

Because I had loved so deeply, Because I had loved so long, God in His great compassion Gave me the gift of song.

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Because I have loved so vainly, And sung with such faltering breath, The Master in infinite mercy Offers the boon of Death.

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countertenor and piano

Duration: 4'

First printing, December 2023

commissioned by Bang on a Can Copyright ©2021 Joel Thompson. All Rights Reserved.

Program Note Copyright ©2021 Joel Thompson. All Rights Reserved Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com

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Supplication for high voice and piano Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

Joel ompson

“Supplication” (1922)

(2021)

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Copyright © 2021 Joel Thompson (BMI). All Rights Reserved.

Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com

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  10 November 2022

Supplication

Exhale  = 44

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Compensation for countertenor and piano

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Joel ompson

“Compensation” (1905)

(2021)

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God

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Gave me the gift

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of

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song.

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com - pas - sion

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10 November 2022

Compensation

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vain - ly,

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And sung with such fal - tering breath,

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mer - cy

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